Publication: ¿Matar inocentes para salvar a otros? El caso del avión-bomba
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2009-06
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Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto de Derechos Humanos Bartolomé de las Casas; Dykinson
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Este artículo presenta la discusión moral de matar inocentes para salvar a otros a partir de la prueba de la dignidad humana. En él se desarrollan las posiciones que cuestionan la posibilidad de utilizar a inocentes para salvar la vida de otros. El caso escenifica a unos terroristas que pretenden de nuevo el 11- S. El problema es derribar o no el avión. Las soluciones están sujetas a un dilema: ¿ser Caifás o Pilatos? Es decir: matar a uno para salvar a todos; o bien, dejar que todos mueran para lavarse las manos. Se ensaya al final una alternativa basada en la «regla del más salvable»: es inevitable derribar el avión, si y sólo si, el grupo A es menos salvable que el B y, por tanto, A no tiene otra opción más que la instrumentalización de sus vidas para dejar de ser el medio utilizado por los terroristas.
This paper exhibits the moral discussion of killing innocent people to save others from a human dignity analysis. The document develops the positions that specify or question whether or not the potential use of innocent lives to save others in the event of terrorists intending to carry out an airplane like 11- S is justified. The problem is to shoot down or not the airplane. The solutions are hanged on the balance of a dilemma to elucidate: Can be Caifás or Pilate? This is: kill one to save all or kill everyone to miss the problem (wash our hands from it). There is a possible solution based on the rule “of the one who has the most salvation’s chances” (the one that has the more possibilities to be save, rescue or to live). It’s unavoidable to demolish the airplane (it’s impossible to avoid), if and only if, the group A has less chances than group B to live; and therefore group A are the innocent people that has the least lives chances to be saved and they have not any other choice than stopping the terrorist by implements (useful) their lives to leave (let being an instrument, abandon oneself,) being an instrument submit to the manipulation of them to kill others
This paper exhibits the moral discussion of killing innocent people to save others from a human dignity analysis. The document develops the positions that specify or question whether or not the potential use of innocent lives to save others in the event of terrorists intending to carry out an airplane like 11- S is justified. The problem is to shoot down or not the airplane. The solutions are hanged on the balance of a dilemma to elucidate: Can be Caifás or Pilate? This is: kill one to save all or kill everyone to miss the problem (wash our hands from it). There is a possible solution based on the rule “of the one who has the most salvation’s chances” (the one that has the more possibilities to be save, rescue or to live). It’s unavoidable to demolish the airplane (it’s impossible to avoid), if and only if, the group A has less chances than group B to live; and therefore group A are the innocent people that has the least lives chances to be saved and they have not any other choice than stopping the terrorist by implements (useful) their lives to leave (let being an instrument, abandon oneself,) being an instrument submit to the manipulation of them to kill others
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Dignidad humana, Bomba de relojería, Mal menor, Daño colateral, Human dignity, Ticking bomb scenario, Lesser evil, Collateral damage
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Derechos y Libertades: revista de filosofía del derecho y derechos humanos, junio 2009, n. 21, pp. 187-225